From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Dec 10 12:39:53 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671B3E8B918 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:39:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-cmomta01.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.225]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Client", Issuer "CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 33FC76F826 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:39:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from raspberrypi.bildanet.com ([65.186.81.207]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id O0tYenWV8dX1SO0tbeDTOT; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:39:51 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.143] by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1eO0tY-0008Bs-AU for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:39:48 +0000 Subject: Re: Need for video driver To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: Baho Utot Message-ID: <0078e1c2-cbd3-22ce-cf37-633750527fe6@columbus.rr.com> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 07:39:43 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfADy7sPOAM0A0wVD422GGtEAzooeiUc0tKgexpPqOnn5fBbjbRShaMlTfbWbF204f2HJ9aT05pIpSUcQfLIh/JmcKYqy+RCdsq2Y/dEqac+VIxWM7Coo 22axQmb4YqRN1Se5ChmT9pBdw/QhRXJpCMyKFNqdhqXGs/ebvvn0iTq4EzULQ8jWZEVkhG3R0NehF8mPQ9wpn6p3bys3Kz/oJm4= X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:39:53 -0000 On 12/10/2017 7:08 AM, Carmel NY wrote: > On Sunday, December 10, 2017 6:33 AM, blubee blubeeme stated: >> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Carmel NY wrote: >> >>> I have an older system that has an NVIDIA video card. The system is >>> mainly used for storage and as a mail server. Is there any advantage >>> to installing the "x11/nvidia-driver" port? >>> >>> vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x13023842 chip=0x10c310de >>> rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 >>> vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' >>> device = 'GT218 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3]' >>> class = display >>> subclass = VGA >>> >>> -- >>> Carmel >>> >> If you're only going to be using the console, I wouldn't see the need to install >> graphics drivers. >> Will you be using anything other than ssh to manage that server? > I have access to the server and usually access it directly. I am just not sure if the NVIDIA driver > does anything outside of an x11 environment. > If you are not using xorg the answer is no